From The Movie Ocean Twelve
Perhaps, it may have sounded like I was joking in my last post when I wrote about asking Stephen Speilberg, Zhang Yi Mou and George Lucas for advice in the making of my Mind Movie. In all seriousness, there may be some value to the suggestion of employing a “dream team” for creative visualizations. The former authority on wealth creation, Napolean Hill thought so. He shared about using an imaginary team of role models in accessing his sixth sense, in his famous book Think and Grow Rich
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To be truly great is to emulate the great, he said. So every night, he held mental meetings with a group of “Invisible Counselors”. He would imagine that he was serving as the chairman to a group of people that he looked up to. In Napolean’s case, he chose 9 men whose lives he admired: Emerson, Paine, Edison, Darwin, Lincoln, Burbank, Napoleon, Ford and Carnegie.
Napolean’s purpose was to rebuild his own character so that it would represent a composite of the characters of his imaginary counselors. He would address each of them about their specific strength or trait that he admired in and asked for assistance in impressing upon his subconscious mind.
Napolean Hill wrote….
“I feel entitled to suggest that, while the members of my cabinet may be purely fictional, and the meetings existent only in my imagination, they have led me into glorious paths of adventure, rekindled an appreciation of true greatness, encouraged creative endeavor, and emboldened the expression of honest thought.”
Napolean’s Formula For Success For The 13th Principle To Riches
From re-reading his book, here are the points I’ve gathered that helped make visualizations a success for him:
1. Belief in Infinite Intelligence and The Sixth Sense. While Napolean claimed that he did not believe in miracles, he believed in the power or a First Cause or an Intelligence. “Intelligence converts acorns into oak trees, causes water to flow down hill in response to the law of gravity. follows night with day, and winter with summer, each maintaining its proper place and relationship to the other.”
Through his experimentations, he came to believe in the sixth sense; the sense where humans receive accurate knowledge of what to do via a channel other than the physical senses. Such knowledge is often received when the mind is under extraordinary stimulation. It is where he managed to gain access to answers from Infinite Intelligence; a source outside the realm of his conscious and analytical mind.
2. Made His Mental Images Realistic. Napolean made his visualizations as realistic as possible. He employed feeling and action in his mental image.
Here are two examples of how he would address Ford and Edison:
“Mr Ford, I wish to acquire your spirit of persistence, the determination, poise and self confidence which had enabled you to master poverty, and to organize, unify, and simplify human effort, so I may help others to follow in your footsteps.”
“Mr Edison, I wish to acquire from you the marvelous spirit of faith, with which you have uncovered so many of nature’s secrets, the spirit of unremitting toil with which you have so often wrested victory from defeat.”
His 9 men displayed individual characteristics while “attending” the invisible meetings. For example, Lincoln developed the habit of always being late. Imaginary jokes were also shared during meetings. Napolean admitted that his imagination was so vivid that these figures eventually looked and sounded very real.
3. Held Over A Long Period Of Time. Napolean said that his council meetings were held over “a long period of years” every night.
4. Receptive To Ideas. Over the years, his experimentation began to take on an entirely different trend. He would go to his imaginary counselors for any difficult problem that confronted him or his clients. He had been amazed by the answers that he got from these mental meetings.
Discussion
I am not sure how many of you would go to the extent of what Napolean did. But if you wish to follow his success path, then adopting the 13th principle to Great Riches and using his exact method may be something to explore. In Napolean’s words, you will feel the touch of something unknown, “the “moving spirit of every truly great thinker, leader, artist, musician, writer, statesman.”
If anything, Jose Silva of The Silva Method taught something similar as well. In his method, we are asked to visualize a special meeting room; a place where we will always go mentally every time we reach the alpha state. In this room, we meet our Spirit Guides or anyone whom we look up to. We can request for assistance, conduct healing sessions, have discussions or just drop in for a cup of tea.
Who Are Your Role Models?
Suspending your beliefs, many of us do have people that we admire. These role models inspire us with their values and attitudes in the area of sports, wealth creation, family and relationships, etc.
Napolean’s team comprised of people in government, business and science. Now what about you? Who, whether dead or alive, do you look up to? What attributes do you admire about your role models and how do they inspire and motivate you specifically?
Hire A Dream Team Idea
On another note, let us have some fun here. Let us imagine that we need to solicit a team for a specific purpose.
So if I intend to make a movie, I’d like to have Zhang Yi Mou, Stephen Speilberg and George Lucas on board.
If I need investment advice for the stockmarket, I’m going to have Warren Buffet, Charles Schwab and Alan Greenspan.
If I intend to steal from a casino to help the poor, I’d want to hire an expert team; something like Ocean Eleven, Twelve or Thirteen. It’ll make sense to get some useful advice from Danny Ocean (George Clooney), Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), and Robert “Rusty” Ryan (Brad Pitt) , don’t you think?
Alternatively, do you have a project that you are working on? Or it may be for a goal that you are aiming for; eg. weight loss, money magnet, author, etc. Who would you like to be in your dream team that you can go to for advice?
Your thoughts and creative ideas, please.
From The Movie Ocean Twelve
Perhaps, it may have sounded like I was joking in my last post when I wrote about asking Stephen Speilberg, Zhang Yi Mou and George Lucas for advice in the making of my Mind Movie. In all seriousness, there may be some value to the suggestion of employing a “dream team” for creative visualizations. The former authority on wealth creation, Napolean Hill thought so. He shared about using an imaginary team of role models in accessing his sixth sense, in his famous book Think and Grow Rich
.
To be truly great is to emulate the great, he said. So every night, he held mental meetings with a group of “Invisible Counselors”. He would imagine that he was serving as the chairman to a group of people that he looked up to. In Napolean’s case, he chose 9 men whose lives he admired: Emerson, Paine, Edison, Darwin, Lincoln, Burbank, Napoleon, Ford and Carnegie.
Napolean’s purpose was to rebuild his own character so that it would represent a composite of the characters of his imaginary counselors. He would address each of them about their specific strength or trait that he admired in and asked for assistance in impressing upon his subconscious mind.
Napolean Hill wrote….
Napolean’s Formula For Success For The 13th Principle To Riches
From re-reading his book, here are the points I’ve gathered that helped make visualizations a success for him:
1. Belief in Infinite Intelligence and The Sixth Sense. While Napolean claimed that he did not believe in miracles, he believed in the power or a First Cause or an Intelligence. “Intelligence converts acorns into oak trees, causes water to flow down hill in response to the law of gravity. follows night with day, and winter with summer, each maintaining its proper place and relationship to the other.”
Through his experimentations, he came to believe in the sixth sense; the sense where humans receive accurate knowledge of what to do via a channel other than the physical senses. Such knowledge is often received when the mind is under extraordinary stimulation. It is where he managed to gain access to answers from Infinite Intelligence; a source outside the realm of his conscious and analytical mind.
2. Made His Mental Images Realistic. Napolean made his visualizations as realistic as possible. He employed feeling and action in his mental image.
Here are two examples of how he would address Ford and Edison:
“Mr Ford, I wish to acquire your spirit of persistence, the determination, poise and self confidence which had enabled you to master poverty, and to organize, unify, and simplify human effort, so I may help others to follow in your footsteps.”
“Mr Edison, I wish to acquire from you the marvelous spirit of faith, with which you have uncovered so many of nature’s secrets, the spirit of unremitting toil with which you have so often wrested victory from defeat.”
His 9 men displayed individual characteristics while “attending” the invisible meetings. For example, Lincoln developed the habit of always being late. Imaginary jokes were also shared during meetings. Napolean admitted that his imagination was so vivid that these figures eventually looked and sounded very real.
3. Held Over A Long Period Of Time. Napolean said that his council meetings were held over “a long period of years” every night.
4. Receptive To Ideas. Over the years, his experimentation began to take on an entirely different trend. He would go to his imaginary counselors for any difficult problem that confronted him or his clients. He had been amazed by the answers that he got from these mental meetings.
Discussion
I am not sure how many of you would go to the extent of what Napolean did. But if you wish to follow his success path, then adopting the 13th principle to Great Riches and using his exact method may be something to explore. In Napolean’s words, you will feel the touch of something unknown, “the “moving spirit of every truly great thinker, leader, artist, musician, writer, statesman.”
If anything, Jose Silva of The Silva Method taught something similar as well. In his method, we are asked to visualize a special meeting room; a place where we will always go mentally every time we reach the alpha state. In this room, we meet our Spirit Guides or anyone whom we look up to. We can request for assistance, conduct healing sessions, have discussions or just drop in for a cup of tea.
Who Are Your Role Models?
Suspending your beliefs, many of us do have people that we admire. These role models inspire us with their values and attitudes in the area of sports, wealth creation, family and relationships, etc.
Napolean’s team comprised of people in government, business and science. Now what about you? Who, whether dead or alive, do you look up to? What attributes do you admire about your role models and how do they inspire and motivate you specifically?
Hire A Dream Team Idea
On another note, let us have some fun here. Let us imagine that we need to solicit a team for a specific purpose.
So if I intend to make a movie, I’d like to have Zhang Yi Mou, Stephen Speilberg and George Lucas on board.
If I need investment advice for the stockmarket, I’m going to have Warren Buffet, Charles Schwab and Alan Greenspan.
If I intend to steal from a casino to help the poor, I’d want to hire an expert team; something like Ocean Eleven, Twelve or Thirteen. It’ll make sense to get some useful advice from Danny Ocean (George Clooney), Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), and Robert “Rusty” Ryan (Brad Pitt) , don’t you think?
Alternatively, do you have a project that you are working on? Or it may be for a goal that you are aiming for; eg. weight loss, money magnet, author, etc. Who would you like to be in your dream team that you can go to for advice?
Your thoughts and creative ideas, please.